Re: Advice about testing ECC

giovanniparodi79@yahoo.it wrote:
> Hello everybody, I developed an embedde system that supports ecc
> cryptography.
> However I need to test it with some test vector: I found the
> LibTomCrypt library, is it well suited for this task or you think it's
> better to use some other kind of library.
> Thanks a lot to everybody and to Tom St Denis for his library
> Giovanni

First, your welcome. I'm glad the library can be of some help.

Second, I assume you're looking for sample point multiplies right? I
can write up some code quickly [tonight when I get home] to produce
some point multiplies you can test your code against. Let me know if
you're interested and I can mail you some test vectors.

I plan to export my lower level ECC functions [e.g. ecc_mulmod,
ecc_map, ...] in the upcoming release so I can add them to the tv_gen
program to test during my test cycles. This could also be used for
others to test against [like my eax,ocb,gcm,ccm,etc... test vector
files...]

Note keep in mind I only support the NIST ECC curves over GF(p).

Tom
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:43:46 2005